Re: HOST-command and NT

In article <35b5c0b7.0_at_news.uni-ulm.de>, Thomas Hesse <Thomas.Hesse_at_medizin.uni-ulm.de> writes
>I want to run a script in SQLPLUS like this:
>
>alter tablespace <table> begin backup;
>host copy <table.orig> <table.arch>
>alter tablespace <table> end backup;
>
>When I execute the HOST-command with SQLPLUS 3.1 NT open a
>cmd-window in which the HOST-command is running.
>The Problem is that SQLPLUS did not wait until the command
>has finished.
>What can I do ?
>
> Thomas
>
>---
>thomas.hesse_at_medizin.uni-ulm.de

Try two scripts, one to begin the backup, and one to copy the file, check for any errors, then end the backup. Call these from NT not sqlplus.

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